Joseph Kabila ENTTENDU BENI TO THIS FRIDAY IN THE CITY THIS AFTERNOON AFTER Friday, December 18, 2015: The head of the Congolese state is expected in the town of Beni, located 350 km north of Goma (North Kivu), Friday December 18, say official sources.Joseph Kabila will likely enjoy a visit to assess the security situation in that territory, plagued by insecurity, fueled by armed men whose ADF.The Ugandan rebels burned, there are more than two weeks, thirty shops, restaurants, pharmacies and deposits, Eringeti, a town 60 km north-east of Beni town.Before step of Beni, the Head of State inaugurated Wednesday, December 16, the Matebe Hydropower Plant, located 70 km north-east of Goma in North Kivu.In the town of Beni, the head of state was preceded, from Thursday, December 17, by the governor of North Kivu, Julien Paluku and the Minister of State for Decentralization, Solomon Banamuhere.As you know, the president of the republic is in Goma and for me I can not not come to assess the situation in order to enable it to decide on major measures he announced when he was before the two Houses of Parliament, met in congress, explained the governor of North Kivu.Julien Paluku thanked the nurses and doctors cite Oicha and Beni Mbau sector who agreed to resume service after several days of strike."I am happy that my call was received by civil society and all the nurses and doctors who have taken over the service.I sincerely thank for this recovery, he added.This health staff had declared the strike to protest against insecurity in the country.More than 300 people had been killed since October 2014, by suspected Ugandan rebels of ADF in Beni territory, according to local society.Press the Governorate.President Joseph Kabila for a trip to Beni in the east.Wednesday in Beni in the northeast of the DRC.A trip 14 days after a series of massacres that claimed more than 30 lives in the region.This is a rare visit since the last trip of Joseph Kabila was in last year.An expected visit while the security situation has deteriorated sharply.But the president has not expressed, people are disappointed.The trip of President Kabila is a "mission compassion with the people, in which he will listen (...) recommendations (civilians) to further improve the security situation in the region, told AFP Governor of North Kivu, Julien Paluku currently in Beni.Safety is clearly the main concern of hundreds of people who gathered in Beni on a large roundabout in the city center, under a burning sun.They waited several hours the arrival of the head of state, armed with umbrellas and banners.The crowd gathered in Beni will hope that the Head of State was going to speak, while the security situation has deteriorated terribly in recent days.There was the massacre of 82 people there about ten days, but still regular attacks like last night.A new attack attributed to the Ugandan rebels of ADF and killed a soldier.Many criticisms We want peace, security and Kabila finally take steps to improve the situation.That's what everyone repeats.So expectations, but also many critics.We are tired, said a teacher, tired of seeing that this president in office since 2001 fails to ensure the safety of its citizens.For years, too long, that every day civilians are killed.In the end, disappointment.There were no speeches this mrcredi.The head of state could be expressed tomorrow.The head of the Congolese state is expected in the town of Beni, located 350 km north of Goma (North Kivu), Friday, December 18, say official sources.Joseph Kabila will likely enjoy a visit to assess the security situation in that territory, plagued by insecurity, fueled by armed men whose ADF.The Ugandan rebels burned, there are more than two weeks, thirty shops, restaurants, pharmacies and deposits, Eringeti, a town 60 km north-east of Beni town.Before step of Beni, the Head of State inaugurated Wednesday, December 16, the Matebe Hydropower Plant, located 70 km north-east of Goma in North Kivu.In the town of Beni, the head of state was preceded, from Thursday, December 17, by the governor of North Kivu, Julien Paluku and the Minister of State for Decentralization, Solomon Banamuhere.As you know, the President of the Republic To the east is the pay for me and I can not come to assess the situation of Beni city and territory.

Cruelty, fear due to repeated massacres attributed to Ugandan rebels of ADF and that continue to cast a pall over the Beni territory in North Kivu have become the daily life of the inhabitants of this vast territory.These rebels are increasingly active and continue to defy the forces of the Congolese order, the authorities are included.The last case of the massacre goes back to the night of Wednesday, May 13 which saw current killing 23 people, after the visit of Interior Minister Evariste Boshab.
Since October, more than 300 people - men, women and children - were killed in that territory.If the killers have not changed their procedures characterized by cruelty of another era (the victims are murdered with knives (machete, hoe, ax, hammer, knife ... and sometimes beheaded), they don ' not hesitate to defy increasingly authorities massacring civilians in the wake of visits to these authorities.
Challenge in Kinshasa
In late October, the head of state Joseph Kabila is visiting for a few days in this territory and promises to eradicate these Ugandan rebels designated as those who massacre the populations of Beni.While the head of state remains there still, a dozen people were massacred in the localities of Bango and KambiyaChui, mine sites frequented by artisanal miners, as in response to the statement of Joseph Kabila.
The last killing of 23 people came after the visit of the Congolese Interior Minister Evariste Boshab, to try to calm the anger of a population exasperated by months of violence.
Several similar attacks were also reported in Orientale province where dozens of people were killed earlier this year.
Kinshasa is being coldly refine strategies to launch an offensive against the extent of the challenges that foreign rebels launched him and the number of people murdered since October 2014.
Wednesday, May 13, the Joint UN Office for Human Rights (UNJHRO) presented a report in which he stated that according to its investigations, between last October and January, "at least 237 civilians were executed by ADF combatants, including at least 65 women and 35 children ".
The report points out that "in the attack of 17 October 2014 in Eringeti, 10 children were slain and cut with machetes, and at least eight women were killed with machetes, which was seen as a clear message to the population that the attackers would spare no one, including the most vulnerable ".
Machetes, axes and hammers
In January 2014, launched an offensive against the ADF by the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC), supported later by the UN Mission (MONUSCO) helped to weaken the rebellion that had to lose significant bastions.However, due to a relaxation of these armed operations, the Ugandan rebels reorganized themselves and have taken the bull by the horns.In October, the series of killings has she begun.
For the UN, the rebels massacred with machetes, axes, hammers, knives to make some noise and avoid alerting.His report notes that ADF rebels were acting in collusion with "FARDC soldiers (...) in two incidents in particular led to the extrajudicial execution of 15 civilians and the bodily integrity of another 12 "and with the help of local leaders.
Since that time, the rebels multiplying massacres and does not hesitate to attack even the UN forces.Thus in early May, a UN helicopter was shot which forced him to make an emergency landing.The aircraft was carrying the commander of MONUSCO, the Brazilian General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz.The next day, two Tanzanian peacekeepers and two civilians were killed in an ambush.
Faced with this violence increasingly growing, civil society and other non-governmental organizations Beni organized days "dead cities" unlimited they have temporarily suspended 15 May current.However, they decided to suspend the payment of taxes by local people until the end of the insecurity in the area, considering that the population is in a situation of the poor, according to Radio Okapi website.
Burial of 22 victims
Meanwhile, the twenty-two bodies of massacred people who were kept in hospital Oïcha capital of the territory, were provided by local families for burial.Some victims were buried at the same Oïcha, others in their localities according to the will of their families.
Shortly before, a Mass was said in their brief to the parish of Oïcha.Local sources say that the purchase of coffins was supported by the authorities to facilitate the funeral.

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